Carol Bartz sits down with WSJ's Alan Murray and discusses her time as chief executive of Yahoo, her conflicts with the company's board and how best to communicate in business.

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I ... the long jump ... when you when ... bodies very happy about that employees satisfaction is very high ... two-and-a-half years later ... Ch ... yes ... so what happened ... on that ... I'm I'm still not sure on ... because it was I was very clear turnarounds at one time and it's actually ... um that ... I'm ... trying to turn around ... I say hi and it's a combination of love this you know cultures come strategy because ... you have ... an ingrained culture and we were trying to change it and then Sts the other thing is ... anybody that's running the company now ... that is so attractive ... to the media ... and the twenty four seven blocks and I mean aren't our life was in a glass house ... and so you have ... a lot of people helping you ... publicly what you should do ... and um so you know just ... that's what do they get hired ... CEO so that they can and ... I get to the big girl and say ... well the addition of done that but ... but normally when the board fired to CEO what we in the press here ... is the CEO made the statement why acheive one of the vote more time to family you or I've accomplished my goals and I'm ready to move on ... that was definitely not your style ... well that was that that was untrue ... but I say I make of that ... do you call the board to this is ... that ... that's a very unusual way of leaving it to come to know what that means ... do this though I didn't that somebody who was ... clueless ... that Sony is clueless ... just tonight were clueless becoz ... but really I mean what what ... this bar stop ... to just do this is theory ... I mean there there ... and you know what what what we heard from the board subsequently was they felt like you had come up with a credible ... strategic plan like you or your performance targets it was on the on ... so you don't ... fall ... oh I'm I'm I'm literally not going to buy a nice element ... of the ... subtle but the reason has to do this comment is because ... it be because you're at your Korea or ... you have been extraordinarily ... cant that ... theory outspoken ... um and this is something we talk about some here last year of whether women ... in order to rise up after the more ... outspoken ... then perhaps man going through this process ... it so it was just curious how that's worked for you is a tactic ... I've ... I have a hard time ... we and people ... don't speak their mind is therefore you can engage in honest conversation ... so for instance this my favorite ... example ... but the ones ... okay we wanna go anywhere ... Mexican I that ... the Italian one on on on ... I just ... the dollar ... like this I could say something but I'm really cleaning out my attic ... um ... and so I think and business people state the position you can can agree with that or try or disagree even try to convince them or change my ... but if you don't know what the position is ... we saw much time and ... find a way ... are you doing this stating your opinion ... like my opinion last night it's not all women are that support of the top I'm stating my opinion I'm not stating ... the